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Re: Archaic H. sapiens???
Dan Barnes (dbarnes@liv.ac.uk)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:41:43 GMT
In article <E3M1ID.3FE@utcc.utoronto.ca>, debra.mckay@utoronto.ca says...
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>J E Hawcroft <J.E.Hawcroft@shef.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>Lieberman's work was seriously undermined by an article by Hayden (I
>>think - anyway it was in AJPA in January 1994) who said that Lieberman's
>>reconstruction of the neanderthal pharynx was all wrong. Lieberman had
>>shown the pharynx down in the chest, an impossible position, and
>>concluded that the neanderthals couldn't possibly have a modern pharynx.
>>But he did this calculation with the neanderthal skull in the wrong
>>plane, and Hayden (I think) showed that if you put the skull in the
>>normal in vivo position a modern-type pharynx could easily have been
>>accomodated in the neanderthal throat.
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>Maybe someone can confirm or deny this, but I heard from a visiting
>prof (Yaroch--I forget her first name) that Lieberman's reconstruction
>was also based upon the La Chapelle skull, which apparently was not itself
>reconstructed correctly, especially in the area of the basicranium. I
>think the problem is that the basicranium is not as flat as the original
>reconstruction suggested.
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The definitive article that I know of (and, I think, the one Jenny was refering to) is:
Schepartz, L.A. (1993) Language and modern human origins. AJPA. 36.
91-126.
It deals with all the points raised by Lieberman's work and many others.
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